6 Perfect Sentences
Everyone knows the world is a mess. Taking that mess and shaping it, lovingly, phrase by phrase, you may occasionally make one perfect sentence. Here are six of them.
Everyone knows the world is a mess. Taking that mess and shaping it, lovingly, phrase by phrase, you may occasionally make one perfect sentence. Here are six of them.
Whether you’re actually a young adult or not, these books captivated us in 2013. Ranked in no particular order.
The year’s best books on food that teach, inspire, and make you hungry for more. Because you’re an adult now, and it’s time to start cooking like one.
According to its Twitter account, the store had its best sales day ever earlier this week. Rejoice, book lovers!
This is the cutest child ever. Merry Christmas!
Santa’s watching.
The bizarre offspring of Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, and Latin dialects, English is a minefield of spelling risks. At Dictionary.com, we get a peek into misspellings from the 3.6 billion searches on our site every year. Here are eight misspellings that increased in search volume in 2013, reflecting the perpetual slipperiness of English sounds and some of the central events of the year.
Do you have a great idea for a children’s book? Here’s a step-by-step guide to getting that idea published.
Tis the season… for soul-crushing short stories about disappointment, alcoholism, and heartache.
The story of how Yumi Sakugawa’s “I Think I Am in Friend-Love with You” went from web comic sensation to best-selling book.
In celebration of its 125th anniversary, National Geographic teamed up with Taschen to release a three-volume photo retrospective. BuzzFeed gets an exclusive peek at some of the rare images.
Ned Vizzini, the author of It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Be More Chill, and many others, has died.
LA based artist Charlene Matthews took on the task of literally raising up the prose of this monumental tome and the result is incredible.
More books are being published than ever before — how can you possibly decide what to read? Here are a few we loved in 2013.
“A different kind of writer’s residency program.”
They will empower and inspire you. Books: They do a body good.
Exclusive! Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort cozy up on the grass in this first look at the highly anticipated adaptation of John Green’s best-selling novel, about two kids with cancer who fall in love. UPDATED with Green’s comments on the tagline.
Harry Potter and the Chem 101 Curve.
From picture books to nonfiction to young adult thrillers, there is a Best of 2013 children’s book for readers of every age.
On the occasion of Philip K. Dick’s birthday.
Here’s your ultimate reading list for the finest music-related memoirs, history books, and critical works of the year.
Physical is beautiful.
He (fittingly) looks JUST like Anton Chekhov.
Boarding school pranks, midnight feasts, crime solving kids and half-human, half-plant hybrids living in the basement. Long before Twilight and The Hunger Games dominated the market, and before we had the internet to distract us after school, these were just some of the story-lines that kept us up late at night with a torch under the covers.
In this interview about his upcoming exhibition at the Louvre, the renowned Italian author discusses how lists have always been an important part of history and culture.
Battle like a wizard, drink like a dwarf, live like a hobbit.
“Decartes is a haughty princess; Heidegger is a long-haired cultural club leader.” Thank you Aya.shii.org for bringing this to our attention.
Two men. Two books. One Little Failure.
Age ain’t nothin’ but a page number.